Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 20:29:11 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> To: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PONY UP! (was: The -stable problem: my view) Message-ID: <1687.834204551@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 21:01:30 MDT." <2.2.32.19960608030130.006e79c4@infowest.com>
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First: we have a very wide distribution on this subject, please don't quote the entire message, and watch that CC line please ! >Questions first: If someone DID want to contribute money, how would this be >done? To what organization would the money be sent? FreeBSD, Inc? Is >FreeBSD Inc, a non-profit organization? So far we havn't pushed the fund-raising very hard, as can be seen from the fact that I had to actually grep the handbook to find the right place, and that Jordan just updated the address to match current reality. We havn't got enough money to make it worth the effort to make it a tax exempt org of any kind, and likewise there are no or few procedures in place to control our usage of the money. Basically we say, "trust us". (The fact that most of you run code we write on your computers indicates to me that you already trust us quite a lot, thanks! :-) Until the cash-flow warrants such procedures we'd rather spend our time hacking code if you understand me, so I hope this rather loose arrangement is OK with our donors. I don't think there is anything preventing us from putting the actual accounts up on the web, but I don't even think we have used any money yet, all we have is about USD1000 or so I think, not really enough for the stuff we want to do. Likewise if a major donation is ear-marked I'm sure we'll be able to account for it's proper use to the donor. FreeBSD Inc is a corporation registered by a number of members of the FreeBSD core-team, and we use that as the official framework for the money stuff at this time. If at some time there is a business case for a non-profit org, we will probably make one, but at this time the paperwork would be too prohibitive. If there are donors out there in the world who think that sending money to U.S.A is a terrible thing or just too much hazzle, contact a core-member in your end of the world, we can probably arrange something. Thanks for the ideas! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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